Pressure to ban meat labels for plant-based products comes from Europe's livestock farmers.
  • FelixCress@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    115·
    2 days ago

    why does the government need to be involved?

    Because consumers should not be misled by deceiving manufacturers.

    • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      2 days ago

      If you see “plant burger” and you are misled to think that it must be made of beef, that says a lot more about you than the manufacturer.

    • TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zipEnglish
      51·
      2 days ago

      Stupid reason. Burger used to mean pork and beef. There were laws for this. Now we have chicken burgers?? Yeah nobody cares.

      • FelixCress@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        111·
        2 days ago

        Stupid reason

        Would it be OK to sell some cheap dog meat burgers as “vegan”? I meant taste would be probably the same but still misleading, don’t you think?

          • FelixCress@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            212·
            2 days ago

            This is exactly what is happening here. Heavily processed plant pulp being named like meat to deceive the customers, otherwise almost nobody with even a shadow of good taste would eat this shit.

            • Solventbubbles@lemmy.worldEnglish
              111·
              2 days ago

              Lol wtf are you talking about dude?

              No vegetarian/vegan sees this packaging as tricking them into eating meat.

              No meat eater is seeing this packaging as meat. And if they do get tricked into eating this product, holy shit they accidentally ate a plant.

              God forbid you have some fiber in your diet.